The Award logo is a tribute and endorsement of TCTF’s support to Community Chest and an indication of strong advocacy towards community giving and social responsibility.
TCTF initiative More Than Words reached more than 2,500 beneficiaries over 4 years.
In celebration of TCTF’s 40th anniversary, we have relaunched Project Wish. In partnership with our supported charity, Care Community Services Society, we granted the needs and wishes of elderly living in rental flats.
TCTF Chairman Dr Tan Kheng Lian was one of two Singaporeans to be featured on Forbes 2016 list of Philanthropy Heroes.
TCTF held its inaugural Charity Media Roundtable for ASEAN NGOs to improve outreach strategies.
TCTF supported the SCO Caring Series concerts at 7 community hospitals and charities. The initiative aims to bring warmth and joy to the patients, families and caregivers through music.
Over 3,000 documents from Tan Sri (Dr) Tan Chin Tuan’s Private Papers was donated to ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute from the Tan family and the Tan Chin Tuan Foundation for digitisation, research and public access.
Founded in 1976, TCTF celebrates its 40th year of giving since its inception.
To encourage a more caring and gracious society, particularly towards the elderly who are socially isolated, TCTF organised a charity Cantonese opera matinee for 1,000 guests through its inaugural TCT Caring Series programme.
The Project Cheer Handbook was launched to guide volunteers on how to plan, budget for and execute their community projects more effectively.
Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor of Biochemistry, Professor Barry Halliwell was credited with raising research excellence standards at the National University of Singapore. As of June 2015, Professor Halliwell is the new Senior Advisor to the NUS President.
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TCTF Council Member, Mr Chew Kwee San, was part of the panel of judges at the President’s Volunteerism & Philanthropy Awards (PVPA).
Advancing its “More Than Words” programme, TCTF involved over 1,000 children, volunteers and trainers in about 140 training hours that culminated in a “More Than Words 2014 – Cherish Your Dreams” performance and a book launch “Singapore 2114: My Dream, Our Future” to encourage its beneficiaries to read, write and speak better.
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“More Than Words” launched to champion learning through creativity. In eight months, 600 beneficiaries participated.
“With Love, We See”: TCTF celebrated Valentine’s Day with visually impaired couples from the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH) on 14 February with a walk in the park and lunch with their loved ones.
TCTF’s CEO Ms Yap Su-Yin is featured in a book “Changing Lanes, Changing Lives” by the Centre for Non-Profit Leadership.
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Community Chest – For supporting single-parent, caregiver and mental health causes
TCTF seeded the Community Justice Centre, a one-stop centre to provide unrepresented litigants with help in legal procedures and social services. Partners include the Ministry of Law, Ministry of Social and Family Development, the State Courts, the Law Society and TCTF.
Charity Council launched the inaugural Charities Governance Award. TCTF’s CEO, Ms Yap Su-Yin, was nominated a member of the judging panel.
TCTF sponsored Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences Paul Krugman’s Public Lecture on “Global Economic Outlook: Preventing the Next Crisis” at Singapore Management University, Singapore. The 7 November lecture was simultaneously web-casted to 900 students in tertiary institutions across Singapore.
Inaugural Yale-NUS College Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor Valerie Hansen visited Tan Chin Tuan Mansion with Prof Danny Quah (TCT Visiting Prof at NUS) to speak to the group’s business and philanthropic contacts during a dinner-talk on China.
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Community Chest – For supporting single-parent, caregiver and mental health causes
TCTF supported the Oxford-Bodleian Libraries to catalogue its collection of pre-modern Chinese materials and avail them to the public through digitization and exhibitions, and to promote access to Chinese materials in libraries in the United Kingdom, as well as researchers from Singapore’s local varsities.
TCTF is founding benefactor of the Yale-NUS College. Its endowed gift of $5 million – matched dollar-for-dollar by the Singapore government – enabled Singapore first liberal arts college to create a “Tan Chin Tuan Professorship in China and Chinese Studies”, as well as a new “Tan Chin Tuan Chinese Culture and Civilisation Programme” to promote the learning of Chinese culture and China.
Community Chest – For supporting single-parent, low-income families, caregiver and mental health causes
“Project Solid Gold” conceived by TCTF Programme Director, was lauded in the media for its bespoke services that add value to existing services offered at charities serving the elderly.
TCTF’s Deputy Chairman, Ms Chew Gek Khim, was conferred the “Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite” (i.e. Knight of the National Order of Merit of France), awarded by then French Ambassador, His Excellency Mr Olivier Caron, for her contribution to the community and culture.
TCTF kicked off its internship programme with seven internships awarded in 2010.
The first Tan Chin Tuan Social Service Institute (SSI) Awards were initiated to help NCSS raise the educational standards among social service practitioners, and capacity build for the non-profit sector.
Community Chest – For supporting single-parent, low-income families, caregiver and mental health causes
Grand opening of the 60-bed Stella Maris General Hospital in Nias, Indonesia. Project-led by Tan Chin Tuan Foundation, the reconstruction followed after the 2004 tsunami. It drew on Singapore-Indonesia partners, including the Singapore Red Cross Society, World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, Sisters of Charity of Our Lady Mother of Mercy and Perdhaki.
3,000 entries submitted by TCTF’s beneficiaries vied for top spot at an original photography contest by TCTF called “My 24 Hours: My Singapore, My Home”. Using disposable cameras sponsored by the foundation, young and old folks captured on film how they spent Singapore’s National Day on 9 August. The contest, held in celebration of our nation’s 44th birthday, was featured by The Straits Times.
The first Tan Chin Tuan (TCT) Centennial Professorship lecture is held at NTU. Prof Ng Wun Jern, inaugural TCT Centennial Professor & Executive Director of Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute at NTU, presented on the topic of “Renewable Energy from Used Water” at the Tan Chin Tuan Lecture Theatre at NTU to over 250 attendees.
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Community Chest – For supporting single-parent, low-income families, caregiver and mental health causes
In memory of its founder who would have been a hundred years old in 2008, TCTF fulfilled the wishes of 19 centenarians residing in seven TCTF-supported charities. “Project WISH 100” celebrated the momentous milestone with beneficiaries who crossed the 100-year mark by granting their birthday wishes through joyous festivities throughout the year. The special moments with Singapore’s oldest residents were featured by Channel NewsAsia.
One million was pledged to the Community Chest of Singapore to support vulnerable pockets of our community, in particular single-parent families. As part of TCTF’s plan to “enable the enablers”, it directed funds to beef up support for charities helping caregivers and people struggling with mental issues.
The first Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Concert series was performed by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) for over 500 senior citizens, caregivers, staff and volunteers from charities supported by the foundation. Held annually, it emphasized the foundation’s style of bringing together different groups from various clusters to partner for a good cause.
A $20 million Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Fund was endowed to Nanyang Technological University on 19 August. The endowment fund supported bi-annual forum cum reunion in China for NTU’s “Mayors’ Class” alumni, a professorship in Engineering, and annual Exchange Fellowships in Engineering. The foundation’s largesse bolstered NTU’s strategy with regard to China, and strengthened expertise in NTU by attracting top researchers within the field of engineering to the varsity.
To mark the Birth Centennial Year of its founder, Tan Sri (Dr) Tan Chin Tuan
TCTF started its inaugural Creative Education awards with NAFA to support the school’s talented, but financially needy students.
Community Chest – For supporting single-parent causes
A $990,000 donation from TCTF enabled the YMCA of Singapore to initiate the “YMCA-TCT Community Services Programmes” to service underprivileged groups in Singapore.
Soka Gakkai (Johor Bahru) received seed funding to launch the award-winning “SMART Partnership”. Close to 1,700 students from needy families affected by the floods secured food and schooling materials, enabling them to return to school. Over seven years, SMART Partnership helped more than 30,000 needy students.
The foundation sponsored Malaysian Red Crescent Society “Saving Kampung Peta” project to help an Orang Asli (aboriginal) community affected by the flood in Johor.
Media coverage from The Straits Times: Helping hands for a flood-hit community
TCTF responded to the major flood disaster in Johor Bahru (Malaysia) by donating close to half a million ringgit to support relief efforts.
Community Chest – For supporting single-parent causes
As part of its strategic revamp, TCTF became the first private family foundation in Singapore to appoint a full-time non-family member as CEO, as well as a programme director to conceive new community initiatives.
A landmark gift of $29 million to NUS. It was the single highest amount NUS received at that time. The gift enabled four Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professorships to be set up. Also launched was a series of collaborative programmes with Universiti Malaya (UM), including the Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professorship in Malay Studies and the UM-NUS Joint Studio Programme.
